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LOT 0326
Western Asiatic Bronze Stand with Animal Feet
12TH-13TH CENTURY A.D.
25 1/4 in. (3.25 kg, 64 cm).
Hollow-formed with openwork columnar shaft and low-relief calligraphic bands, bulb to each end; broad discoid platter with raised rim; tripod base with low-relief knotwork to the dome and crouching animal to each foot.
Provenance
Acquired in Iran, 1960s-1970s.
Kept in the UK since 1981.
Private collection, London, UK.
Literature
Cf. Fehérvári, G., Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, item 97, for type.
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